Improvement in tool-handles



H. STAPLES.

rpm-Handle.

Patented March 9, 1875A )gen/tor.

Wneesses www THE GRAPHIC COPHOTOr'LITHASQ &4T PARK PLAGE,N.Y.

,d NITED STATES PATENT @Frioc HIRAM STAPLES, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOOL-HANDLES.

l Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,725, dated March 9, 1875; application filed February 6, 1875.

To all whom tmc/y concern: means, two straps, b b. These straps have Be it known that I, HIRAM STAPLES, of one end formed intoadovetail tenon, c. These Battle Greek, county of Calhoun, State of tenons ll the mortise in the tool transversely, Michigan, have invented certain new and usebut when inserted leave room between them ful Improvements in Tool-Handles; and'I do for the insertion of the wedge d, which is f hereby declare the following to be such a full, driven between them and secures them iirmly clear, and exact description thereof as will to the tool. enable others skilled in the art to which it The mode of putting together the different pertains to make and use the same, reference parts is as follows The straps b b are iirst inbein g had to the accompanying drawings, serted in the mortise in the tool and forced to forming part of this specification, and to the either side. The wedge d is then driven beletters of reference marked thereon, similar tween them, and may be of such length as to letters indicating corresponding parts in the come flush with the surface of the tool on both dierent figures. sides or it may be formed a little shorter than This invention relates to that class of toolthe tools thickness, so as to allow the end of handles which are generally used in tools inthe handle to enter the mortise a short distended for percussive action, such as hamtance. After the parts are tixed the handle mers and picks, but may be used with almost is driven in, its end bearing upon the wedge d. any tool in which it is desired to firmly tix The bolts a are then inserted through the the handle without increasing the dimensions straps and handle, and when they are tightly of the part to which it is attached, and at the screwed up the tool and handle will be found same time afford a ready means for detaching irmly united to each other, while the mode of it when desired; and the invention consists construction offers a ready means for disenin the construction and arrangement of the gaging the handle whenever desired. parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, Having thus described my invention,Iclaim and then pointed out in the claim. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is ent of the United States, the following: a perspective view of a miners pick, having The means for attaching a tool to its hanthe handle attached in accordance with my dle, consisting of the elongated mortise in the invention. Fig. 2 shows a nail-hammer with tool, the straps with enlarged ends, to which its handle secured in the same manner. Fig. the handle is secured, and the wedge, all con- 3 shows a pick, in section, giving a view of stru-cted and arranged substantially as specithe arrangement of the different parts of the fied. device. Fig. 4 presents perspective views, in In testimony that I claim the foregoing as detail, of the straps and securing-wedge. my own I hereunto affix my signature in pres- The tool is represented in the different ence of two witnesses. figures by the letter A, and is provided with HIRAM STAPLES.

an oblong mortise in that part to which it is Witnesses: desired to affix the handle. This handle B EDWARD BELL, has secured to it, by the bolts a or equivalent MOSES I. HUFF. 

